Read attached info about UCLA team rules under John Wooden.

Coach Wooden on “Team Rules”:

“The year after Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul Jabbar) graduated from UCLA, my best returning post player came to the team photo shoot with very large mutton chop sideburns. We had a team rule of no long hair and no facial hair. I said, “There is a set of clippers in the dressing room. I want those sideburns trimmed off in the 15 minutes before the photo shoot.” He said, “Coach, you don’t have the big man any longer, you need me.” I looked down at my watch and replied, “You are right. The big man is gone and you will be too if those sideburns are not shaved off in 14 minutes.” I never begrudged a player for testing the team rules. But, I never changed the team rules.”